Selected Publications

[* Denotes a student paper from the lab]

  • *Gignoux-Wolfsohn, S; *Marks, C; Vollmer, SV. (2012) White Band Disease transmission in the threatened coral, Acropora cervicornis. Nature Scientific Reports 2: 804 doi:10.1038/srep00804
  • Toth, LT; Aronson, RB; Vollmer, SV; Hobbs, JW; Urrego, DH; Cheng, H; Bush, MB; Enochs, IC, Combosch, DJ, van Woesik, R; Macintyre, IG. (2012) ENSO drives 2,600-year collapse of eastern Pacific coral reefs. Science 337 (6090): 81-84.
  • Fogarty, NK; Vollmer, SV; Levitan, DR. (2012) Weak Prezygotic Isolating Mechanisms in Threatened Caribbean Acropora Corals. PLoS One 7(2):e30486.
  • Palumbi, SR; Vollmer SV; Romano, S; Oliver, T; Lander, J (2011) The role of genes in understanding the evolutionary ecology of reef building corals. Evolutionary Ecology. DOI 10.1007/s10682-011-9517-3.
  • *Combosch, DJ; Vollmer, SV (2011) Population genetics of an ecosystem-defining reef coral – Pocillopora damicornis in the Tropical Eastern Pacific. PLoS One 6(8): e21200. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021200 [link]
  • Kline, DK; Vollmer, SV (2011). White Band Disease (type I) of Endangered Caribbean Acroporid Corals is Caused by Pathogenic Bacteria. Nature: Scientific Reports 1:doi:10.1038/srep00007 [link]
  • *Doellman, MM, GC Trussell, JW Grahame, and SV Vollmer (2011). Phylogeographic analysis reveals a deep lineage split within North Atlantic Littorina saxatilis Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Series. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.0346 [link]
  • Goodbody-Gringley G, Vollmer SV, Woollacott RM, Giribet G (2010). Limited gene flow in the brooding coral Favia fragum (Esper, 1797). Marine Biology DOI: 10.1007/s00227-010-1521-6
  • *Hemond EM, Vollmer SV (2010). Genetic diversity and connectivity in the threatened Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) in Florida. PLoS One. 2010 Jan 11;5(1):e8652 [link]
  • Vollmer, SV; Kline, DK (2008). Natural Disease Resistance in Threatened Staghorn Corals. PloS ONE 3(11) e3718 [3]
  • *Combosch, DJ; Guzman, HM; Schuhmacher, H; Vollmer, SV (2008) Interspecific Hybridization and Restricted Trans-Pacific Gene Flow in the Tropical Eastern Pacific Pocillopora. Molecular Ecology 17: 1304-1312.
  • Nunes, F; Fukami, H; Vollmer, SV; Norris, RD, Knowlton, N (2008) Re-evaluation of the Systematics of the Endemic Corals of Brazil by Molecular Data. Coral Reefs 27: 423-432
  • Vollmer, SV; Palumbi, SR (2007) Restricted Gene Flow in the Caribbean Staghorn Coral Acropora cervicornis: Implications for the Recovery of Endangered Reefs. Journal of Heredity 98:40-50.
  • Willis, BL; van Oppen, MJH; Miller, DJ, Vollmer, SV; Ayre, DJ. (2006) The Role of Hybridization in the Evolution of Reef Corals. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution and Systematics 37:489-517.
  • Vollmer, SV; Palumbi, SR (2004) Testing the Utility of ITS sequences in Coral Phylogenetics. Molecular Ecology 13: 2763-2772.
  • Vollmer, SV; Palumbi, SR (2002) Hybridization and the Evolution of Reef Coral Diversity. Science 296:2023-2025.
  • Vollmer, SV; Palumbi, SR (2002). Unisexual Clones: Lizards and Corals. Science 298:2130-2131.
  • Vollmer, SV; Edmunds, PJ (2000) Allometric Scaling in Small Colonies of the Scleractian Coral Siderastrea siderea (Ellis and Solander). Biological Bulletin 199:21-28.